This Progressive Web App is a submission to the 2023 Game Off event hosted by GitHub on itch.io, It was created by @dylanlangston using the following:

• Zig
• Raylib via Raylib-Zig
• Raygui via Raygui.zig
• Emscripten
• Binaryen
• Svelte
• Typescript
• TailwindCSS

This was my first attempt¹ coding using Zig as well as my first app to target web assembly.

What's Game Off? ²

Game Off is GitHub's annual game jam challenging individuals and teams to build a game during the month of November. Use whatever programming languages, game engines, or libraries you like. You're also welcome to use AI tools to help generate code, assets, or anything in between!

The theme for this year's jam is SCALE!

My interpretion of the theme is a vertical platformer that is procedurally generated³.

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Getting Started

This repository includes a devcontainer.json and prebuilt Codespace images to get up and running quickly with a full-featured development environment in the cloud!⁴

Clone

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/dylanlangston/Scale.git
2. Change directories into the newly created ./Scale folder. Then initialize the submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive

Debug Locally:

1. If you haven't already, install Zig version 0.11.0 using the instructions here.
2. Configure you build environment for Raylib using the appropriate instructions for you platform.
3. Finally, to start the game run the command zig build run. Alternatively run the Debug task in VSCode.

Build for Web:

1. Complete steps to Clone and Debug Locally above first.
2. Change directories into the ./Scale folder. Build the zig portion of the game using command zig build -Dtarget=wasm32-emscripten. Alternatively run the Build Web task in VSCode.
3. If you haven't already, install NodeJS LTS from here (or your preferred source).
4. Change directories into the ./Scale/src/scale-website folder. Then install the required node packages using npm install.
5. Build the web version by running the command npm run build. You can find the generated static site in the ./Scale/src/scale-website/build folder.

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Credits

Font	Source	License
Eight Bit Dragon	https://www.fontspace.com/eight-bit-dragon-font-f30428	Freeware, Non-Commercial
Two Lines	https://www.fontspace.com/2-lines-font-f14541	Freeware, Non-Commercial
Ec Bricks Regular	https://www.fontspace.com/ec-bricks-font-f30951	Creative Commons (by-nc-nd) Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Palette	Source
Miyazaki 16	https://lospec.com/palette-list/miyazaki-16

Sound	Creator	Tool	License
jump	miajohnson99	Chiptone	Creative Commons (by) Attribution
Game Over	miajohnson99	BeepBox	Creative Commons (by) Attribution

Music	Creator	Tool	License
Theme	miajohnson99	BeepBox	Creative Commons (by) Attribution

All the included textures were created using Piskel and are licensed as Creative Commons (by) Attribution.

Footnotes

1. As this is my first attempt, it's likely that this code isn't idiomatic or following best practices. ↩

2. Game Off 2023 on Itch.io ↩

3. The platforms are pre-generated and randomly placed due to time constraints. ↩

4. For local development check out Dev Containers and DevPod. ↩